Thursday, 17 June 2010

DICKSON TRAINING cancelled!
Today's planned training session at Dickson has been cancelled owing to the weather. All ACT sports-grounds are closed, which means there wouldn't be any lights. Anyway, it is wet cold miserable dark and windy.

How to choose an event
Inspired by Ewen - see his excellent post here ... explaining why the 5k will be his major focus in the foreseeable future.Ewen's table

Marathon

5k

100 metres

Olympic Tri

Like racing it

2

9

4

5

Like the training

6

10

5

4

Good at it

2

5

3

2

Friends do it

7

7

1

2

Emotional attachment

6

9

2

2

23

40

15

15

... I have created my own table similar to his.My version of the table

1500

3k/5k

10k

Half Marathon

Marathon

Like racing it?

9

8

7

9

8

Like the training?

6

6

6

4

2

Good at it?

8

6

5

4

6

Friends do it?

5

7

10

10

10

Emotional attachment

2

3

2

3

4

30

30

30

30

30

Which does not seem to be of much help.

Queenslanders are strange
A sign on our way out of Brisbane: "Warrego Wines, open 5 days, Thurs - Sun"

"Customs" could be a little cold on Friday but I plan to run it. See you there.